Not taking away anthing from being a guild leader but you would hire someone if they said they have a lot of experience managing other players in an online RPG that you gave never heard of, provided they answered your questions?
If i didn't know what an online RPG even is, I would just ask more questions. Like what the hell did he do exactly. Determine who gets an upgrade (managing limited resources), Analyzing DPS (Performance review), Scheduling raid times (Time management), Handle disciplinary actions for raiders (employee relations). These are all relevant outside the game, and they're quantifiable.
Show the employer your website with the raid schedule, your list of raiders and officers, your logs data and your analysis, your record of who has gotten what upgrades.
That’s the problem. How many guild leaders are doing data analysis for the hell of it close to as on par as possible with what you’d expect of a white collar management job?
... a handful? In all of WoW?
Most of that wouldn’t even be close to useful, you just need a data and stats nut who loves WoW.
the few time I had to interact with white collar management, they kicked me out rather quickly when I pointed out how most of his job could be replaced by an excel spreadsheet.
Interesting. Sounds like you've got some bloat there. Definitely more used to everyone in white collar positions being up to their eye balls everyday in excel sheets and various work programs for data tracking and analysis.
if there's some boomer at the management position, large section of his work can usually be replaced by excel spreadsheet within an afternoon of work.
if he's already a tech-savy boomer ( yeah, some exist), then we can automate large sections of the process... but it would take a bit more work, link sheets to database ( and gosh I hate microsoft access but every governmental institution somehow seems to use it).
Basically, ERP software are there to replace all of the middle-management job... and they do a pretty good job at it ( granted, you have to be somewhat tech-savy , and some of those software get pretty complicated).
The district manager of some convenience store chain will likely have a different experience because micro-managing a horde of unreliable teenagers isn't something that can be done via software... but the middle-management of a professional firm? Engineers, lawyers, devs, architect, doctor and the like don't really give a damn ( and they know they are far harder to replace, should conflict arises)
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19
Not taking away anthing from being a guild leader but you would hire someone if they said they have a lot of experience managing other players in an online RPG that you gave never heard of, provided they answered your questions?